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"When translating texts, especially literary texts, my opinion is that the quality of the translation is of the utmost importance (as opposed to those who think that the notes and comments are more important). Our translation tried to render the integral communication of the original, that is to say, not only the intellectual or doctrinal content, but also the emotion, the impact, the allusions of the text… The translation of literary texts must not impoverish the original, but render the quality of language and literary genre, e.g. songs of love, sayings, elegies, rhetoric, narrative… " (L. Alonso Schökel)

La Biblia del Peregrino (PER), specifically conceived for readers in Spain, has had a huge influence on the liturgy (especially the Psalms, which has become the official version). It outshines on account of the beautiful translation of poetic texts (Prophets, Job, Song of Songs, Proverbs, etc.) and the dynamic translation of the narrative texts. Recently it has been adapted, as far as possible to the rich linguistic diversity of Latin American countries ("La Biblia del nuestro Pueblo").

L. Alonso Schökel, the translator of the Biblia del Peregrino, was formerly a prof. at the Pontifical Biblical Institute (Rome). The text has been thoroughly revised and prepared for BibleWorks by two Biblical scholars, José Luis SICRE, Sacra Scriptura D., prof. at the faculty of Theology, Grenada (Spain) and at the Pontifical Biblical Institute (Rome), and Lorenzo DE SANTOS, Th.D., alumnus of the Pontifical Biblical Institute. We thank them for their labor and generosity.

The assistance of Jean-Noël Aletti, of the Pontifical Biblical Institute, in enabling this addition to BibleWorks, is also appreciated.

Sorry about the name confusion. t is back to PER. BNP will be the name of the Latin American Spanish version coming soon.